Human rights: universal, inalienable and indivisible
Dr. Maria Ron Balsera
Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
I’m writing this blog on the eve of Human Rights Day, following celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child.  On 10 December 1948 the United Nations General... Read more
SDG 4: Making human rights count
Erica Murphy, Mihir Mankad & Francesca Feruglio
Monday, 15 July, 2019
There is increasing recognition that data—relevant and reliable data—are central to achieving Agenda 2030 and advancing the realisation of human rights. We need data to inform laws and policies,... Read more
GEM report, UNESCO, education, right to education
Initial reflections on ‘Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments’
David Archer - @DavidArcherAA
Tuesday, 24 October, 2017
The new Global Education Monitoring Report is ground-breaking in placing accountability at the centre of its attention. As the report notes, the concept of accountability was shockingly absent from... Read more
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Monitoring the Right to Education of Out-of-School Girls in Tanzania
Erica Murphy - @RTEProject
Monday, 25 July, 2016
Tanzania has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world. According to the UN Population Fund, 37% of girls are married by age eighteen. In Tanzania, as in many other countries, child... Read more
Children’s right to education: Where does the world stand?
Jody Heymann
Thursday, 20 November, 2014
In Mexico, one out of every two teenagers won’t finish high school. In India, only a third of students get their high school diploma. Even in the U.S., around 5500 high schoolers will drop out before... Read more
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Bringing Issues of Education and Privatisation to the UN
Sylvain Aubry - @saubryhr
Friday, 12 September, 2014
It is the morning of Wednesday 3rd September, at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights headquarters in Geneva. The die is cast; in a few minutes we will know. My Moroccan colleague,... Read more
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